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The Music Stopped on Valentine’s Day, a full-length radio play, tells the story of Avi Noam Gross—my late husband—whose life ended due to a medical error. It weaves this painful narrative with his music, because I needed a way not only to tell what happened, but to honour Avi’s extraordinary musicianship.

Avi was a gifted composer and pianist. He completed his thesis on Bill Evans at the University of British Columbia, and his instrumental album Sophie’s Heart is currently streaming. This piece features his standalone songs as well as music from our original musicals, The Calling Hour and Meshugeneh, the Musical. The Old Show had already been written, and we were on the verge of workshopping it when Avi received the Tdap vaccine and suffered a catastrophic reaction.

I won’t go further into the details here—you know the story does not end well.

With The Music Stopped on Valentine’s Day, I hope you will come to know what happened to an extraordinarily talented, humble, and deeply intelligent man—one who was often misunderstood because of his unique nervous system, which placed him on the autism spectrum.

It will be three years this Valentine's Day that Avi passed. With any luck he's hanging out with Bill Evans.

Deep thanks for my friends who helped with the show in some way: Josea (tech), Aly (feedback), Walt (guitar at end), Shirley Perry (musical feedback), sound engineers MG ( as well as flute), KvH and Connor as well as Michelle for her encouragement, and the kind, Paul J. Gratitude to solo coach Jessica Lynn Johnston and Mira Wilder for initially instigating the show and helping me write it.

There are so many to thank who helped me through very tough years. This list begins with my LA neighbors and staff, (particularly José) at Horace Heidt Estates in Sherman Oaks, CA. My step son, Harv, Cha Cha, Suzanne, Conny - everyone who came to the hospital, the shiva, and/or the memorial that included my two phenomenal grandsons and their parents :) Also a shout to Torah Minyon in LA (particularly Mona), and now Har El in West Vancouver, B.C.

I am so grateful to Miriam, Micki and Kim, Florence, Lynnie, Seabury, Walt and Mitch; they keep me standing as well as on the east coast my old friends Nora and Holly and the the Sears - AS/ J; P.A.W., T/ M.

I can't forget Bea

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#trauma #medical error #music #musicals #originalsongs #autism #soloshows #NationalCitizensInquiry #Creativity in Healing #Medicalfreedom #MindControl #Canadaontheedge #HealthCanada #CanadaLaw #TrueHope #truth #apocaloptimist #transformingtrauma #grief #grievingdeeply #homeopathy #loveheals #naturopathicmedicine #druglessmedicine #energymedicine #expressiveartsheal #empoweredvoices #knowledgeispower #singtohealthyroids #erasetoxiclegacies #peaceispossible #VictimeRecovery

Books: Transforming Trauma, a drugless and creative path to healing PTS and ACE is published by Hammersmith Books is available globally.

Surviving a Viral Pandemic through the lens of a naturopathic medical doctor. On Amazon both paperback and eBook

Flawed, a novel - an eccentric family saga - is on Amazon both paperback and eBook...audiobook now on Audible

Music: Instrumental album: Sophie's Heart - Avi Noam Gross (streaming)


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email: drheatherh@icloud.com

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Having a great interest in mind control, I discovered Jason Christoff at NCI - National Citizens Inquiry - an amazing Canadian people-led group diving into what went wrong during Covid. The present theme and question is Are children safe in Canada? (I spoke on the Flexner Report of 1920 in Edmonton in March 2025. The Flexner Report sabotaged our medical system by making our health care solely allopathic, excluding systems of medicine such as homeopathy, naturopathic medicine, chiropractic, midwifery and traditional osteopathy.)

Jason has spoken on the subject of mind control at the US Senate and at the EU, Japanese and Romanian Parliaments. Jason operates an international psychological reprogramming institute where he teaches health professionals and members of the general public how to use positive forms of mind control, to make their lives (and the lives of their patients) better.Jason is set to release his first documentary titled PLANET MIND CONTROLthis fall, 2025.

In order to win the battle we're all in today Jason believes that each citizen must educate on the basics, in relation to how mind control works and how to avoid becoming a victim of it.

Victimhood is another topic I hope to discuss through this podcast as I regain equilibrium after my husband's death by medical error. To that end my one woman show will start off as a radio play. I hope to have it ready to air by October 2025.

This journey of grieving has been intense and I want to thank so many- family, friends, strangers, new friends from Har El, the grief group out at N Van City Library as well as PJ and Beau for almost daily walks. And NCI for hope and strength to get our world on a better course.

So much love, so much support has come my way...and I am sooo grateful.

Jason grew up in Truro, Nova Scotia so this episode is dedicated to my cherished Maritime sisters and brothers and friends, who are confined by the ridiculous edict to not go into the woods today.

Much love to all and please pray for attorney Reinier Fuellmich who is imprisoned in Germany for political reasons.

Relevant books for this episode include:

Rape of the Mind by Joost Merlo 1950s psychiatrist

Anything by Hannah Arendt, German Jewish American, probably the greatest philosopher of the 20th century

Essays and books by Matthias Desmet, Belgian professor and

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#Creativity in Healing #Medicalfreedom #MindControl #Canadaontheedge #HealthCanada #CanadaLaw #TrueHope #truth #apocaloptimist #transformingtrauma #grief #grievingdeeply #homeopathy #loveheals #naturopathicmedicine #druglessmedicine #energymedicine #expressiveartsheal #empoweredvoices #knowledgeispower #singtohealthyroids #erasetoxiclegacies #peaceispossible #VictimeRecovery

Books: Transforming Trauma, a drugless and creative path to healing PTS and ACE is published by Hammersmith Books is available globally.

Surviving a Viral Pandemic through the lens of a naturopathic medical doctor. On Amazon both paperback and eBook

Flawed, a novel - an eccentric family saga - is on Amazon both paperback and eBook...audiobook now on Audible

Music: Instrumental album: Sophie's Heart - Avi Noam Gross (streaming)


Workshop coming in October. Pls email drheatherworkshops@icloud.com.

websites: drheatherington.com; heatherherington.com
email: drheatherh@icloud.com

new phone number 672 399 1942

Breathe in and out slowly and gently wherever you are.
We will survive this dark time of the world. It starts with you: standing, jumping, singing in the light of love and even if just a little at first, joy.

Send us a text

The deep healing that can occur through the Expressive Arts is only beginning to be acknowledged. In this episode I speak with solo show coach Jessica Lynn Johnston. She was my acting coach and director in my last solo show, Hidden. (See heatherherington.com for review).

Writing my novel Flawed was lifesaving when I felt burn out from treating sexual abuse survivors as well as treating PTSD, addiction, autoimmune and so on for so many years. It allowed me to expresss emotion through my thoughts and ideas, helping me discard stress through creativity. And I kept writing whether it was the librettos fro Avi and my musicals or radio plays, essays and finally the books, Surviving a Viral Pandemic through the lens of a naturopathic medical doctor and Transforming Trauma, a drugless and creative path to healing PTS and ACE.

But for me performing solo shows has been the pinnacle. With Avi writing my tunes and singing them on stage while acting out my own sexual assault and embodying characters that supported my emotional recovery generated a healing so profound that I was actually shocked. And now years later I am creating a show about my late husband Avi Noam Gross who died from hospital error. And so with my acute grieving having subsided I am excited to bring my workshop back. Originally a retreat and called Moving the Pelvis to Healing, I am now naming it, Transforming Trauma through the Expressive Arts.

And this is why Jessica was a good person to interview as she has helped thousands of people, teaching them, coaching them, aiding them in transcending major bumps in their lives. You can reach her at SoaringSoloArtist@gmail.com or visit her website SoaringSoloStudios.com.

For information on my workshop to be held on the North Shore of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, please email drheatherworkshops@icloud.com,

May you have a happy day! xo

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#trauma #autism #soloshows #NationalCitizensInquiry #Creativity in Healing #Medicalfreedom #MindControl #Canadaontheedge #HealthCanada #CanadaLaw #TrueHope #truth #apocaloptimist #transformingtrauma #grief #grievingdeeply #homeopathy #loveheals #naturopathicmedicine #druglessmedicine #energymedicine #expressiveartsheal #empoweredvoices #knowledgeispower #singtohealthyroids #erasetoxiclegacies #peaceispossible #VictimeRecovery

Books: Transforming Trauma, a drugless and creative path to healing PTS and ACE is published by Hammersmith Books is available globally.

Surviving a Viral Pandemic through the lens of a naturopathic medical doctor. On Amazon both paperback and eBook

Flawed, a novel - an eccentric family saga - is on Amazon both paperback and eBook...audiobook now on Audible

Music: Instrumental album: Sophie's Heart - Avi Noam Gross (streaming)

websites: drheatherington.com; heatherherington.com
email: drheatherh@icloud.com

new phone number 672 399 1942

Breathe in and out slowly and gently wherever you are.
We will survive this dark time of the world. It starts with you: standing, jumping, singing in the light of love and even if just a little at first, joy.